3D Paper experiments

 Scored paper and experimented with folds

 Thin printing paper, folding technique.

Erwin Wurm Response (Tshirt/matierals)

I used photoshop to enahnce and vary the colours and tones within theses images to make them more exposed and stonger.
I quite liked the process of this, as I did not know the outcome, I just took the matierals and expirmented.

Erwin Wurm Photography Response (Group Chair Activity)

A group activity using chairs to respond to Erwin Wurm's work.

I like how lively and freestyle these images are, although we are responding to Wurm's work, each of us is doing it in our own way, making it original.

I like how its temporary, working with our bodies and chairs gives the opportunies to create more variations fast and easily.  

3D object representation and drawing experiments

 This series of drawings originated from a few drawings of an object, then I went on to make a 3D represention of the object and begun this series of drawings.

timed, 5 minutes
stick and ink
pastal
wash
collage
masking tape

Negative shape of object done in a wash in the background, college of object made up of scraps of a previous drawing

All this series was done timed, with eyes closed drawing with mainl stick and ink and a continuous line. Although at times I found this way of working frustrating, I quite liked it, once I got into it.

I felt having less control over what I was doing gave me a sense of freedom, not having to worry if what I was doing was okay or not, I just trusted in myself.

Overall I liked the drawings I produced, I think they show a good variation of mark making and mixed media and although the drawing may not be entirely accurate, the style and the overall looseness is nice, and reflects the task.

Graham Brock (Travel Artist)

English painter
Travels across the world gaining his inspiration,
His work tends to look at how we populate natural
environments, Brock looks at seasides, cityscapes,
painting postcard style pictures, his style similer to
impressionism combined with realism.

I like how real he makes his work, his paintings can
tell a story. I think it's a nice connection Brock makes
with natural environments and people

RIchard Long (Travel Artist)

Richard Long

English sculpture
Photographer and Painter
Contemporary land artist.

Long's work is influenced by nature and solitary walks he takes, in his piece 'A line made by walking' he simply walked back and fort down a a trail of grass till he imprinted a single straight line on it and photographed his results.

I like this way of working, its simplistic and does not require much apart from the maker and his camrea, which links in to nature being simple and basic.

The black and white toned down colour of the photography highlights the line nicely as it disappears into the dark woods, which appear dramatic with the dark tones.

Danny Gregory (Travel Artist)

Danny Gregory is an illustrator, filmmaker and author  of several books.
He creates illustrated journals documenting places he's been and things he's seen. he uses a range of media from pencils to ink to crayons to watercolours, he is always changing and likes to vary the size of his journals from quite big to small.


I like how everything's not to detailed, the looseness of his sketches adds motion and realism.
it's nice how he doesnt try make everything to perfect, as he's sketching something right before him, I think its easy to imagine and feel involved in the image.

The light, subtle use of colour adds a nice shine, combined with sketchy ink pen marks.

Sophie Calle

Photographer, installation and conceptual french artist.
Sophie Calle's work relates to traditonal concepts and focus ore on her ideas rather than a finished piece.






She portrays human vulnerability and extinguishes identity and intimacy within her work. Calle likes to allow others to furnish her work with they're opinion of it and create idea own idea of what shes trying to say.
Works such as 'Talking to stangers' were influenced after she returned to Paris and wanted to get reacquented with the city, so she follow or approached strangers and would ask for directions, request to be taken somewhere of their choice. doing this takes a certain level of trust I think, with the other person, the idea of social contact, Calle is rewarded by strangers kindness. I like how alot of her work relies on communication and help of others.

Karla Black

 Karla Black creates sculptural installation pieces, using raw materials.

I find interesting that Black doesn't foucs on her work having any sort of meaning, she makes art purely for it to serve a funtion, she wants people to see her work as a physical object rather than over complicating it with a meaning. I think this is good as it allows her to play around with materials more and be free, rather than spending time worrying if her work has a meaning.

she creates raw, alive work made from traditional art materials, plaster, bits of makeup and bath bombs, her work has been described has being feminine, fragile and delicate, because of some of the materials she uses such as make up, and the coulour scheme of alot of her work being very pastal colored pinks and light colours which people analyse to much i think as being feminine however Black strongly disagrees with this, because who's to say what's feminine or not. Black uses materials that interests her, I don't believe
she is really trying to represent any hidden meaning.

I really like how earthly and natural her work is and the strong impact the large scale of each piece creates. I think Black transforms our perception of materials, we see basic materials in it's rawest form which allows us to understand them abit more I think.

Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg is a British sculpture artist who uses found materials and recycles them into sculpted art.
anything from household waste to construction refuse.

Cragg takes mostly broken up bits of colour plastic, creating very tactile, vibrant pieces of mosaic designs for walls and floors. His concern for our environment and wanting to restrict the amount of pollution reflects in his work, by savaging waste products and transforming them into works of art we learn to see waste in a new way, which may encourage us to recycle more.




I really like the arrangement of Cragg's work, I think it's clever, how he compiles each individual piece according to the nature of it, such as matching each piece of broken up bits of plastic to its own color, his organisation is contrasting to the idea of waste, as when we throw something away, unless we're recycling it into specific bins, we don't really tend to care if it looks neat, but this is another way Cragg reinvents waste.

Annette Messager

Annette Messager is know for her installations with either photographs  performance installations, stuff toys and other materials. Although some of her work has a childlike aspect such as her performance piece 'Motion/Emotion 2012' where she displays hanging dolls, clothes and wigs being swayed around by fans, I like the playful aspect she presents in her work, however at the same time it can be quite disturbing and eerie.  

Theatrical, sinister, bizarre, disturbing and obscene could all be used to describe Messager's work, alot of her work questions society and tries to bring light to female empowerment, being brought up in a  time where woman had very little rights, Messager took influence from this which shows in her work.

  She portrays sex, love, beauty, pain and power within alot of her pieces from a womans perspective, the way she displays her work is what I like most. Her work is mainly installation based, she’ll often have work pinned  to the wall, hanging from above, or scattered on the floor, this gives 

the work a sense of freedom, and is less restricted then most installation pieces, it also allows viewers to see her work from an interesting perspective, as with a lot of her work it’s place in an open space, hanging from the ceiling, you can walk around to fully embrace it.

Erin Wurm

In Erwin Wurm's 'One Minute Sculptures series' which started in the late 1990's he uses any materials he has at hand, set up in a studio space people are encouraged to get involved and create improvised works of art on the spot, documented by film and photography.

I find Wurm's work very interesting, although the act of making is done in a fun, playful and quite a child like way, the outcome of some pieces can be abit grim and dark and touch on subjects such as violence and warfare, but I like how the outcome of his work isn't entirely dependent on him, also in this series particularly, how each piece only lasts for one minute, and then its gone, it's like the the materials get recycled for another individual to take a different approach.


(Erwin Wurm: One Minute Sculptures (1997) © Erwin Wurm (detail))


I like the composition of Wurm's work, like the image of a woman lying flat on the floor witha suitcase on top of her, it appears shes passed out, and perhaps been injured from the way shes posed, and the perspective we see of her in this image, looking at it, this image to me suggests assault, violence, which contrasting to the act of which it was produced, which was spontaneous and playful.

Sarah Sze

I was drawn to Sze's work by the structure of her work and how she positions the lighting to highlight individual pieces forming a whole structure.

The relationship she creates between her work and the environment that it centures around forms a basis for her piece to grow, although her work is quite architectural and mechanical it also processes a very organic nature by the found and recycled objects displayed in her work.

There is also a sense of time within most of her work, as most of Sze's work is displayed in a large studio space, the public can picture it as a working environment, we can imagine it being made and see it falling apart, a

nother way Sze relates to time within her work is by using items from throughout the day, such as waste from her lunch that day, so the objects are located in time.